The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-03-24
DIREFUL PRoHECIEs.


Revolutions, Wars, Earthquakes in the
NoNt Thirteen Sears--Then Comes the
millennium.
Qrom the Baltimore SUM-
Tho Rev. MIR. Baxter, editor of the
New York Christian Herald, preached
three times last Sunday at Harris's S
Museum on the Coming of Christ and
the Beginning OF he Millennium" Large
audiences were present Mr.. Baxter has
been speaking on the same subject
throughout the country. lie is about
GO years old, rather tall and has bushy
dark hair and beard. Many of his hear
ers, particularly women, went away look
ing serious or frightened.
His text was Daniels vision of the
four beasts one Of which, he said, repro
sented tho Babylonian empire, one the
Mcdo Persian empire, one the Grecian
empire, and the other the Roman em-
pirc. He predicted the formation, by
great wars and revolutions, of all the
countries of Cpsar's original Roman en-
pres into an allied confederacy Of ten
Kingdoms ruled by ten sovereigns, as
represented by the ton horns Of the wild
beast in the seventh chapter and twenty
fourth verse of Daniel, and the subse-
qucnt rise among the ten sovereigns of
an eleventh sovereign, who will be the
little horn as represented i'll the beast
and who will first appear in Syria. The
allied kingdoms will be Britain, France,
Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Egypt,
Syria, Turkey and Bulgaria. In the
meantime Germany will have been con.
qucrcd by France and will be part of
that kingdom, which will then be ruled
by king. In cOnquering Germany
France will bc aided by Russia or by n
socalistic revolution in Germany. She
will be led by Boulangcr, who is n man
of destiny. When the ten Kingdoms are
formed the sovereign represented by the
little horn will gradually increase his
power until he becomes king of tie ten
allied nations, and finally the imperial
ntl-Christ. He will be representative
OF the Napoleon dynasty, the greatest
warrior that ever lived, the crafticst
statesman and tho most successful leader
Of men. America will be subject to his
dominion. He will not conquer this
country by bringing vast armies here,
but will succeed by means of his fasci-
mating genius which will win him count
less adhcrents, such as socialists, hihil-
lists, spiritualists and Romanists, who
will eventually get control of the whole
country.
Mr.. Baxter prophcsicd That all these
things Will come to pass during the next
thirteen years, after which will come the
millennium Of Thousand yeas. The
great wars and revolutions and earth
quakcs Will begin III year or two, and
will be the most horrible, the most de-
vnstating, the world has known. By
1880 the ten kingdoms will have been
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original Roman empires will be sepa.
rated, ut least lcgislntivcIy, from the ten
Kingdoms inside the Roman empire,
Ireland and India and the colonies will
be separated from England legislatively,
If not entirely. The eleventh king will
first attract attention by seven years
covenant with the Jews, and in about
two and half years thereafter he will
advance from being merely King of
Syria to be head of France, and then be
the supreme sovereign Of the world. He
Will be the anti-Christ during the last
three and Il half years.
With regard to his reasons for fixing
the time for tho great crisis he said that
Whatever differences of opinion have eX-
lStcd among cXpOSltors us to the mere
details OF prophetic Interpretation, more
than II hundred of them have forcShOWn
in their books that it will probably take
place between now and 1900. Having
arrived at the threshold Of this crisis we
behold their prophetic anticipations sig
naliy verified and confirmed by the
startling signs Of the times political,
social and religious clustering around
this period.
In Wow of these predictions, Mr.. Bax-
ter told his hearers that they will be
living i'll fools paradise if they do not
prepare for approaching events by say
ing their souls by SO living that may be
among the elect. That done, all they
will have to do will be to wait to see ii
what he says will not come true.
Along the sides Of the museum gale
ricS were vivid paintings of the propho-
cicS, and over the stage was Il map of
Europe. Mr.. Baxter illustrated his re-
marks by pointing to the pictures and
tracing on the map the dominionS Of the
allied nations. Collections were taken
up to pay for the museum, and copies of
MIR. BnXtcr's book were sold and the
pmcc OF his paper was announced.